The Assembly on Tuesday night voted 7-5 to approve a new measure adding criminal penalties for camping on public lands. According to supporters, the move is one of many the city is taking to address ...

The ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to camp near many public spaces, including schools, playgrounds, public trails and ...

Backers say the measure is designed to prevent entrenched encampments in sensitive areas such as parks or near schools and ...

Native American radio stations could face shutdowns if Congress cuts over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public ...

The Anchorage Assembly will be taking up the proposed prohibition on camping on public lands again at their meeting on ...

The vote on a proposed public camping ban in Anchorage was postponed on July 11th and is now rescheduled to be voted on ...

In competing proposals, Anchorage leaders push to stop entrenched encampments with more penalties Some residents told Assembly members that making it a crime to sleep outside showed a lack of ...

Three different versions of Ordinance 2025-74 were set to be discussed at the Anchorage Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The ordinance has the potential to criminalize camping on public lands.

Three Assembly members are proposing to make unauthorized camping on public lands a jailable offense. The Assembly will hear public input Tuesday.

Local governments in Bartholomew County say they have been preparing for new rules requiring public meetings to be live-streamed and archived that are set to take effect next month.

Amid a growing crisis of sprawling and often crime-riddled homeless camps in city parks and neighborhoods, the Anchorage Assembly is set to consider a new ordinance that would punish unauthorized ...